Postponed The Wedding But Still Getting Married

We are pobably going to do the same! We will just go to the court house and do the formalities, but after that my FH and I decided we just want to spend the day togther alone. We will probably go on the boat out on the lake and just enjoy the summer day! (Hoping the weather is good). I also got a relly nice dress. But we will really keep it on the low.

We are doing the exact same thing. We are ready to be married and while the presence of our guests is important, we really don't want to wait any longer. We won't do anything too special. Just get married, order some take out, get a small cake and some bubbly. The reception might not come this year either as my dress is not forgiving and we want to try to start having kids. I'm wearing what I have in my closet as I've spent enough money on a wedding that is not happening anytime soon even if things are miraculously better by April 15th. Le sigh.

Contact your courthouse! Our courthouse is closed, so for us on April 18th we can’t get married

We're doing the same thing! Our wedding was planned for June 20 but we postponed to August 29. Trying to figure out what we'll do on the 20th now. I contacted our photographer as well so we could have photos from that day but it'll probably just be our parents, MOH and BM. If it's safe we'll get a meal together afterwards otherwise, FH and I will probably do takeout and drink champagne at home.

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Our courthouse is closed, but our officiant has offered to do a small ceremony for us and we already had the license so we should be good to go.

I'm envious! Our whole city went into shelter in place the day before we were going to get our marriage license. Two counties in my state are allowing virtual marriage applications, unfortunately we live in a different county-- there is talk about accepting application from outside counties. Crossing our fingers we may still be able to get something for the 23rd.

We got married on March 28 in a small ceremony with just family. My dad was going to marry us anyways so all we had to do was find a place. We had it at a local park, in a more secluded area and earlier in the day so there weren't as many people around. I wore my dress, he wore his suit and the photographer came and took photos. Then we just had a small cake (that my sister made) and punch afterwards. It turned out as perfect as it could given the circumstances. Weather was beautiful and it was so special with just the people we're closest to there. Then we had the rest of the day to ourselves so we got take out from a nice restaurant for dinner, drank champagne and just relaxed. Honestly, I really loved it and have wondered why we bothered to plan something so big in the first place! But we'll still do our reception later to celebrate with everyone else. At the end of the day though, we're married and that was all that mattered to us.

View Quoted Comment I was just about to reply that same thing. Here the courts are closed for weddings, and barely doing criminal court cases from what I read.

Hey date twin! we are doing the same. My fh is very much wants to do something. I can see him being optimistic and wants to have a very small ceremony. I have told him my concerns about not doing anything because its a lot of risk but he wants something good to come out of this. I don't know, maybe its because he has always gotten his way in life lol. I mentioned to my mom about having a small dinner with both parents and she looked at me like i was crazy. My fh really wants to have a small gathering in my parents house, so i told him my mom already said no but he said he is willing to talk to them. I told him i'll do it but i am not. It's too much of a risk. Both his parents and brother are still working. No one in my family is. But i told him, i wouldn't mind just like Renee is doing, just get some takeout and enjoy our night. So we'll see what happens lol.

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I definitely feel that. We had talked about having our families come down, but we really didn't want to expose them to that kind of risk, especially with them having to travel a couple hours. I think we have decided that our brothers will be there as witnesses, since they're both only about 30 minutes away. And that will be it. We can celebrate with everyone later when we feel like its safer.

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That sounds so nice! I'm definitely super excited about the small ceremony, but I think I'll still want my "big wedding moment" later when we celebrate with the rest of our family. The where is now our biggest challenge. They're starting to close recreation areas at parks and its walk in traffic only so I cant imagine closing the parks themselves will be close behind. We're trying to come up with a couple different options just in case.

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What state do you live in? Contact your state capitol, I know for me (in NH) they are still doing marriage licenses at the capitol (all other town offices in state are closed)

We're postponing out big day for reasons other than COVID, but we're thinking about doing a private ceremony with just the two of us in the mountains before we move. In Colorado, you can marry yourself and you don't need witnesses, so it's the perfect way to do a meaningful, completely private ceremony.